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The Land Settlement Agency (LSA) of the Ministry of Housing on Tuesday handed out 300 Certificates of Comfort to people who had been squatting on state lands for several years, giving them the comfort of knowing that they would finally own a piece of land.

Thirty persons received Certificates of Comfort (CoC) from the Land Settlement Agency on Tuesday night at the Arima Town Hall. Sixteen of the recipients were from Arima, and 14 from Bon Air West. Dr Lincoln Douglas , Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism and MP for Lopinot/...

Talks on a free trade agreement between Canada and a group of 15 Caribbean countries appear to have stalled and need to be reinvigorated to meet a year-end deadline to conclude a deal, says Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

Former national security minister Jack Warner was an “exceptional” minister and the driving force to make the police service more efficient and effective. So said acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams who paid glowing tribute to Warner yesterday. The acting top cop was...

JACK Warner, 70, last night announced that he will today advise Speaker of the House of Representatives Wade Mark of his resignation from Parliament as Chaguanas West MP effective midnight tonight, in the process triggering the holding of a bye-election for the seat within 90...

Chaguanas West Member of Parliament Jack Warner addressed his constituents at a meeting at the Pierre Road Recreation Ground in Charlieville on Thursday night, as he sought to clear the air on his recent resignation as National Security Minister and chairman of the United...

Hollow politics and slow justice It has taken more than a decade for the court to throw out, for want of prosecution, 28 charges of voter padding in the 2000 gene­ral election. The decision re-opens a politically driven chapter, now only dimly recalled, and also gives fresh...

Trinidad and Tobago and Canada have agreed to co-host a CARICOM Public-Private Partnerships Seminar and business-to-business meetings in Port-of-Spain later this year. This is one of the issues noted in a joint statement issued by Prime Ministers Kamla Persad-Bissessar and...

THE EDITOR: What is the fear that the independent senators possess concerning 300 soldiers acting as police officers for a period of two years? If they were distrustful of the former Minister of National Security, he is no longer there. What is the problem? 

THE EDITOR: I always thought the Government’s duty was to fight crime and safeguarding its people, but not here in Trinidad. The criminals have been getting so much support, and I am sure they are laughing their hearts out, although they are heartless with their atrocious crimes.